Buses linking Reno-Sparks with Bay Area to start Dec. 12

12:53 PM,
Nov. 28, 2012

Visitors enjoy a view of the San Francisco skyline from a hilltop at Dolores Park in San Francisco in 2008. A suburban New York-based bus company will begin twice-a-day express service between Reno-Sparks and Sacramento/San Francisco on Dec. 12 as it returns to the West Coast.

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Bill O?Driscoll
bodriscoll@rgj.com

A suburban New York-based bus company will begin twice-a-day express service between Reno-Sparks and Sacramento/San Francisco on Dec. 12 as it returns to the West Coast.

Megabus.com touts its service as low-cost - one-way fares start at $1 depending on advance bookings and rise to as much as $30 - and officials said the Interstate 80 corridor between the Truckee Meadows and the Bay Area is a natural avenue for its double-decker buses.

"There is pent-up demand for service," Mike Alvich, vice president of marketing and public relations, said Tuesday from Megabus.com's headquarters in ...